PTSD created in a 5-year old. A lifetime of flashbacks is in their future.

We shouldn't just abolish ICE, we should hunt them down one by one and end each individual agent.

Yeah that's totally fair. My only slight defense is that maybe Mamdani thinks he'd end up losing that fight because NYPD is a completely crazy and heavily armed organization with all sorts of ability to cause absolute chaos in the city, and I do think that's what they'd try to do if Mamdani was coming for them.

But even then I think that's a mistake. Appeasing violent bullies is no way to live.

If that doesn’t happen here, I can’t think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.

Politically this is gift to Mamdani that she holds the position:

• He didn't appoint her, so he has low risk of keeping her
• It can make him look apollitical that he is willing to keep on staff from the previous administration and not act purely on political grounds
• He earns political points, influence, and support from the rich family because he did not remove her
• She knows she has a political target on her back, so she's incentivized to keep him happy carrying out his mandates
• When NYPD has a scandal, he can immediately point to her, and her leadership, and fire/prosecute her for it
• When the removal finally does happen he'll score points with his base for removing yet another relic of the Adams administration and be able to appoint a reformer

There's a video of it out now. They literally swarm the car while shooting at it as if it were a carjacking. Then a "construction worker" with an AR-15 shows up

It's a garden path headline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence